On a programming note, snicks will be liveblogging all the gay goings on with Days of Our Lives today, so schedule your lunch break accordingly.

We’ve all watched those “Most Interesting Man In the World” commercials, but just how did he become so interesting? Part of it may have been playing a red shirt onStar Trek and not getting killed in the episode.

A nuclear submarine collided with an Aegis destroyer off the east coast of the United States. The extent of the damage isn’t known, but both ships returned to port under their own power.

Extreme homophobe Rep. Allen Westis running an ad claiming his opponent Patrick Murphy voted to cut $700 billion from Medicare. The major problem with this is that Murphy has never been elected to Congress, and so hasn’t voted on anything yet. This is where we are with politics.

Via press release, Freedom To Love has announced a concert at the Beacon Theater in NYC on October 30th featuring Rufus Wainwright, fun., They Might Be Giants, Reggie Watts, and more.

Guiding Light actress Maureen Garrett, who played Holly Lindsey for 35 years has come out as a lesbian after years of guarding her privacy. She and her partner have raised two sons and taken in a daughter as well. Welcome to the gayborhood!

Please go read this story about how Miss Coco Peru became the fairy godmother to a very lucky little girl. It may require tissues.

Helen LeFave is the lesbian stepsister of Rep. Michele Bachmann. She doesn’t speak out often about the anti-gay messages that Bachman spreads, but she did talk toFrank Bruni. Evidently Bachmann stunned her when she began using the anti-gay message in her politics. ““It felt so divorced from having known me, from having known somebody who’s gay. It stunned me.”

One man thinks that while gay conversion therapy is probably quack science, banning it by statute is wrong, when so many other therapies, including lobotomies remain legal. He obviously fails to understand that it’s not about having politicians picking and choosing medical therapies, but about protecting children from adults.

I’ve never watched an episode of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. I don’t watch reality television generally, and this one has a lot against it. Still, I’m touched at the acceptance of gays in the show, and now Uncle Poodle explains how he got the nickname, and says something that rings true in both his rural Georgia and my rural West Virginia. “If you want people to accept you, you have to show you don’t have a problem with yourself and just be up front about who you are. If you do, you earn people’s respect. If everybody would just go on and do that, ignorant people couldn’t cause so many problems. I know this is how I was born and I don’t need to explain it to anybody. I live my life for who I am. That’s why ‘Born This Way’ is gonna be my next tattoo.”

Several schools have canceled programs related to Mix It Up Day At Lunch once the American Family Association sent out an email blast, saying of the event, “It’s just another thinly veiled attempt to promote the homosexual agenda. No one is in favor of anyone getting bullied for any reason, but these anti-bullying policies become a mechanism for punishing Christian students who believe that homosexual behavior is not something that should be normalized.” Of course, Mix It Up Day never directly addresses anti-gay bullying, but is designed to help mix the cliques at a school. Some use it to help mix special needs students with the broader population. But since it’s sponsored by The Southern Poverty Law Center, the AFA takes issue, since they’ve been labeled a hate group. “The reality is we are not a hate group. We are a truth group. We tell the truth about homosexual behavior.”

Former Senator Arlen Spectorhas passed away at the age of 82. Spector had his faults, but he was a moderate Republican for most of his career. He originally voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but came to oppose it later in his career.

The FCC has approved a new rule that will allow encryption of basic cable service, meaning that people who don’t used a cable box are soon to be out of luck. There are provisions in the rule that provide for free boxes under the law for certain conditions.

Argofinished a strong second with $20 million this weekend at the box office, with Taken 2 holding on to the top spot with $22 million. Sinister pulled in $18 million for third, and Seven Psychopaths bombed.